Last Friday night I was in my element hosting my event Life - Learn - Laugh, a room of around 60 women living, learning and laughing. We raised over £1,000 for Safer Places, Essex - I felt alive and full of thanks.

Saturday, whilst in a haze of pride (for myself) and relief (the event went so well), we celebrated my daughter Darcy’s 15th Birthday - I felt full of love and contentment, all was as it should be.

Sunday, I got the news that my friends daughter had passed away after a long struggle with the bastard that is cancer.